Strange Tale of Qingluan

Dingxuehou bowed his head and pleaded repeatedly, but Shi Chaojing was still so hard-hearted, indifferent, and instead wanted to teach him not to know how to pity and cherish jade.Ding Xuehou had no choice but to ask her to resign, and walked out of the Queen Mother's palace disappointed.

Just as he was walking on the road, Su Zhongming jumped out suddenly, stopped him, and asked with a smile: "How is it, how is the Queen Mother's reaction?" Ding Xuehou sighed slightly and shook his head in disappointment.Su Zhongming was mentally prepared, and replied: "I'll just say it! The queen mother's heart is biased towards the eldest princess, so why would she agree to you immediately!"

Dingxuehou walked forward slowly, "I just said that I want to divorce my wife, but I didn't specify who I like, so the queen mother immediately became very angry. If I specified who, maybe I have already entered the prison..."

"The queen mother is really so cruel...?" Su Zhongming's heart trembled slightly, a little unbelievable.Ding Xuehou guessed, "Probably because she is the biggest figure in the court now, in order to maintain her majesty?"

Su Zhongming replied: "Since the queen mother does not agree, then you should give up! Since God has arranged it this way, then let it go." Ding Xuehou listened, feeling unhappy, and stopped staring at Su Zhongming for a long time.Su Zhongming felt very uncomfortable being stared at for a long time, and asked doubtfully, "What are you looking at..."

Ding Xuehou raised his right hand, wiped his cheek, and only replied: "I'll go back first." As soon as he put down his hand, he took a step, and walked away alone.Su Zhongming looked at Ding Xuehou's back, and for a moment, he suddenly remembered another matter, and hurried up to stop him, "Wait a minute, I have something to tell you!"

Dingxuehou stopped again, turned around, curious.Su Zhongming said, "Someone attacked me yesterday, and it was Zi Qixiang's subordinates! Ah Qing has locked her in the prison." Ding Xuehou grabbed his guard, "Go! Go to the prison Let's interrogate that shaman." Su Zhongming is also idle now, so he nodded immediately and went to the prison together with him.

When she arrived at the prison, the woman was trapped in a birdcage-like cell, her hands were chained and fell up, her feet were also locked with extremely heavy iron balls, she closed her eyes and said nothing.The prison guards led Ding Xuehou and Su Zhongming to the birdcage-like cell, did not open the cell door, only bowed respectfully to them, and retreated.

Ding Xuehou glanced at the prisoner, and asked Su Zhongming beside him, "Is that her?" Su Zhongming nodded affirmatively, "Yes! She is probably one of Zi Qixiang's masters." Ding Xuehou stepped forward , approached the cell, raised his head fiercely, and interrogated Yue Shuitian majestically, "I won't gossip, I just ask you: Did Zi Qixiang send you to take revenge?"

The woman in the cell didn't move or answer, as if she was dead.Ding Xuehou waited for her for a while, then asked her again, "I'll ask you again: Did Zi Qixiang send you to take revenge?" The woman in the cell snorted contemptuously, but still didn't say anything.Dingxuehou was not in a hurry, and said, "If you don't say anything, I have no choice but to use torture."

When Su Zhongming heard this, he hurriedly stopped him, "What kind of punishment do you want to do to her? She is a daughter, so she can't bear the severe punishment!" Ding Xuehou replied calmly, "The most important thing for a woman is to see herself become ugly. Order someone to pluck off all her hair, and then order someone to drag her outside to parade in the streets."

After finishing speaking, Yue Shuitian raised his head, opened his eyes, and said bitterly: "You torture a woman like this, thousands of women will not be willing to love you until they grow old together!" Ding Xuehou didn't bother at all. , replied calmly, "Unfortunately, I have never been married to thousands of women."

Yue Shuitian stared at him resentfully, his eyes seemed to want to bite Ding Xuehou to death, but Ding Xuehou didn't care at all, he just repeated that sentence, "Say, did Zi Qixiang send you here?" revenge?"

The woman snorted, turned her face away, and finally agreed to be honest, "No... I am here to avenge him. The prince has treated us lowly people as much as a mountain, and I must avenge him On the blood feud!"

Su Zhongming was extremely indifferent to these words, approached the prison cell, and blurted out: "So what if his kindness is as heavy as a mountain! He is old and cunning, and harms people everywhere. If you avenge him, you are helping the evildoers to commit crimes. Heaven will not tolerate it!"

Yue Shuitian just snorted and did not refute.Marquis Dingxue opened his lips and was about to continue interrogating her. Suddenly, the prison guard walked in and respectfully said to Su Zhongming: "Your Majesty, there is something urgent in the palace and I want you to go back quickly." Su Zhongming was very curious, and turned around and asked: "Yes. What's the matter?" The prison guard replied, "It's a distinguished foreign guest."

Another distinguished guest from a foreign country?who?Could it be that Qianqin turned back again?

Su Zhongming was slightly startled, and after thinking for a while, he said to Ding Xuehou, "You continue to interrogate! I'll leave it to you! I'll go back first!" After saying that, he hurried out of the cell and rushed to the Queen Mother's bedroom.

In the Empress Dowager's bedroom, Pingxuan poured tea into the cup with a smile, and gave the cup to Shi Chaojing with a smile, bowed slightly, and said in a gentle voice: "Mother-in-law, please drink tea." Only then slowly stretched out his hand to pick up the cup, took a sip of tea politely, and then said, "You said... Zhong Ming established a brother-sister relationship with you when he was in Huang Yuanguo?"

Pingxuan smiled and nodded lightly, "Yes, because of his talent, he solved the problem of Huang Yuan, and allowed Huang Yuan to trade with the neighboring country Guangling. Now Guangling is also helping to build the canal."

Shi Chaojing was speechless for a while, and Pingxuan continued: "Although it is self-assessment, our country is very sincere to establish a family relationship with Wenguo, and we will be a family from now on." Shi Chaojing said dully, "One...one family... "Completely different from the smiling Ping Xuan, she couldn't believe it.

Su Zhongming arrived, rushed into the house, opened his mouth, and asked Shi Chaojing: "Mother, who is the guest?" When Ping Xuan turned around, he was surprised immediately, and he couldn't help saying, "Ping Xuan? Why are you ?!" Ping Xuan smiled very brightly, opened his lips and called him 'brother' affectionately, and told him to go forward very kindly.

Su Zhongming was not used to it, felt very embarrassed, forced a smile, and walked over, "Why do you have time to come to Wenguo?" Pingxuan replied: "One is to see the adoptive mother, two. , I came to tell my brother: The Lord of Guangling said that he also plans to help with the canal, and now he has started construction from the Wuhuang River to cooperate with Huangyuan!"

"Really? If the two ends work together, then we will get twice the result with half the effort!" Su Zhongming said happily.Pingxuan smiled and nodded, agreeing, and said: "The water control officer said that if this continues, the two rivers will be connected in three months." Su Zhongming replied, "That's good, and it will be much faster to go to Guangling in the future! "

He just felt happy, but Shi Chaojing had an insight into his thoughts. She coughed out solemnly, reminding Su Zhongming, and Su Zhongming took a look at her, and immediately restrained himself, not daring to be too complacent.

"Girl," Shi Chaojing said to Ping, "the Ai family never thought about having another daughter. Since you have all held ceremonies in the ancestral hall, it will not end well if the Ai family refuses, so I recognize you as a daughter. Today you It's your first time here, Ai's family can't treat you as a guest, so you can stay with Ai's family tonight."

Pingxuan was very happy, and agreed: "Yes! With the care of her adoptive mother, Pingxuan will not be lonely in Wenguo." Shi Chaojing let go of her embarrassment and smiled.Su Zhongming stood aside, like an outsider, watching them chat more and more familiarly, without speaking, after a long time, Shi Chaojing remembered his existence, and ordered him to take Pingxuan to the Royal Garden for a walk.

Su Zhongming agreed, took Pingxuan, and walked casually in the imperial garden - Chenghong Garden, walking along the winding corridor, admiring the water lilies in the lake, and walking to the center of the corridor, Wen Qian came up from the front with an extremely boring look by herself. When she looked up, she was both happy and puzzled.

"Brother, who are you bringing with you? Why haven't I seen it?" Wen Qian couldn't hold back, and asked with concern as soon as she opened her lips.Pingxuan glanced at her, looked back at Su Zhongming, and asked him, "Brother, who is this sister? It seems that she is very familiar with you."

When Wen Qian heard her address to Su Zhongming, she was very upset, curled her lips, and blurted out: "Is your brother also called you? Who do you think you are?!" Ping Xuan was stunned when he heard the words, He looked at Su Zhongming suspiciously again, and replied calmly: "He is my elder brother, and I shall call him elder brother."

Wen Qian was still displeased, and proudly said: "Joke! I don't know if he has brothers or sisters? It must be the gold you put on your face!" Ping Xuan was embarrassed, and reluctantly replied: "If you don't believe it, you can Go ask the queen mother, and you are so fierce, who is your brother?"

"Who am I to him? Haha! Tell you, I'm his wife!" Wen Qian gesticulated with one hand, with a triumphant look.Su Zhongming couldn't see it, and finally said: "Have you had enough trouble? We don't have any marriage relationship anymore, and you are going to get married, so don't talk nonsense to your future husband, Shen Yun."

Wen Qian snorted unhappily, and blurted out: "I don't want to! I didn't want to do this in the first place!" Su Zhongming didn't move, but said: "Pingxuan is also the princess of Huang Yuanguo, and it's the first time I come here today. Wen Guo, you can't embarrass her, let alone make her angry."

Wen Qian dismissed it and hummed.Su Zhongming was afraid that she would affect the relaxed atmosphere, so he didn't plan to talk to her anymore, and led Pingxuan to pass by her. Wen Qian stomped her feet, and Su Zhongming continued to walk forward without looking back.Wen Qian cried out in anger, and ran forward while rubbing her tearful eyes.

Pingxuan was a little nosy, looked back, and couldn't help worrying, "Brother, that sister... really don't need to care about it?" Su Zhongming waved his hand, "It's not the first time she's crying, let her Let it go." Hearing this, Ping Xuan reluctantly continued to follow Su Zhongming.

In Dingxuehou's mansion, Dingxuehou returned to his home to rest after interrogating Yueshuitian. He was sitting in the courtyard at this time. She stopped, intending to confess everything to her and then divorce her.

When Hui Rou saw that Ding Xuehou rarely greeted her, she was very happy, so she quickly walked up to him, and said with a smile, "husband, it's so strange that you actually called me!"

Ding Xuehou looked serious, "Yes. I've been thinking about it, and there's something... I think I need to tell you. You put the things away first, and come to my room later." After speaking, he stood up , and left immediately.

Huirou didn't know his purpose, but she was very happy, and immediately went back to the dormitory, put down a basket of embroidery materials, combed her hair again, and arrived at Dingxuehou's dormitory after a while.As soon as she stepped through the threshold, she saw Ding Xuehou and asked, "Husband, what do you want to tell me?"

"How long has it been since we two got married?" Ding Xuehou opened his mouth and asked about it.Huirou was pleasantly surprised and puzzled, and quickly replied, "It's been almost half a year!" Ding Xuehou asked again, "It's been so long, do you hate me for not having sex with you, do you hate me for not having a good dinner with you? "

Huirou was overjoyed and wondered if Dingxuehou had changed his mind, and replied with a smile, "No!" Dingxuehou returned to the subject, and said seriously and calmly: "That's good! Huirou, I'm going to divorce you today, Can you agree?" Huirou was taken aback when she heard it, her heart trembled slightly, and she said in disbelief, "What did you say...you just said..."

"That's right. Huirou, I've made up my mind. I want to divorce you. This is my only way out." Dingxuehou repeated without changing his face.Huirou couldn't accept such an answer, and blurted out: "What's the way out! I'm with you, aren't you happy! I'm the eldest princess, and it's your luck to be willing to marry you! How dare you say something" Hugh' word!"

Ding Xuehou explained to her calmly, "Huirou, the person I love is not you! Besides, Wenguo has talented and handsome men, you can use your status to find a man who is more suitable for you, and stay with me Together, you will never get happiness in your life, and I can't give you happiness."

Huirou bit it lightly, wanting to drink alcohol, and asked him: "Did you call me here just to talk about this matter?" Dingxuehou gave a light 'hmm' and admitted.Huirou held back her tears and said, "Did Zhongming tell you to divorce me? Was it him!" Ding Xuehou lowered his eyes and did not answer.

"It must be him!" Hui Rou, the eldest princess of the Shengshi, said with certainty, and said, "I have known about your marriage for a long time! I just didn't expect... He would dare to talk to someone from his relatives! It's me You misread him!"

Hearing the words, Ding Xuehou spoke calmly, with some guilt in his tone, "Don't talk nonsense, it has nothing to do with him, it's my responsibility, I forced him, and things turned into what they are today."

Huirou didn't sympathize with him at all, instead she became resentful, "I've been with you a long time ago, before he came back, I was with you a long time ago! It's clear that he cheated on you, it's his fault ! You are so heartbroken by him, that's why you protect him like this!" Then, she stepped forward, supported his shoulders, and shook him, "Hurry up and wake up!"

Dingxuehou sloughed off her hands, slapped her in the face, and scolded her, "Do you think I'm bewitched? Do you want to invite a Taoist monk to help me exorcise the evil?" Pointing at her with his index finger, "The one who should be sober is you!" Then, he picked up a letter on the case and handed it to her, "This is the divorce letter, you can just figure it out."

Huirou stretched out her hand tremblingly, and took the divorce letter. After Ding Xuehou stood up, he stopped talking to her, walked past her, and walked out of the bedroom.